BUILDING RESILIENT ENERGY SYSTEMS
While some poor and vulnerable communities live without energy access, they are also on the frontline for climate change impacts.
CIDSE advocates for the transformation of the global energy system so that it protects and delivers for all its people. Building safe, affordable, reliable, and efficient energy systems based on renewable sources will meet development needs while complying with the goal of the Paris Agreement to stay within 1.5°C warming of global average temperatures. Such systems can also positively contribute to address the causes of climate change and increase local resilience to current and future climatic impacts. CIDSE also denounces false solutions such as coal, large hydro-power projects, agrofuels and nuclear which can’t deliver a fair and long-term transition.
We believe a rapid global shift to 100% renewable energy production by no later than 2050 is absolutely necessary, as well as a radical and rapid reduction of energy consumption across all sectors. CIDSE also identifies the need to reduce the overall energy footprint of our lifestyles in the global north, and we promote this in our work on sustainable lifestyles.
Stories
Publications
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“Energy to Change”: online launch and offline screenings around the
April 23, 2019The way people produce and access energy is a crucial aspect of our lives, because energy is essential to our […]
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Is EU support for energy in developing countries fully aligned
April 20, 2019CIDSE, CAFOD, Geres, Hivos Policy Briefing, March 2019
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One prophetic step on a long way
April 18, 2019Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Chairperson of the Austrian Bishops´ Conference, announced on 22 March 2019, the decision of Austrian bishops to […]
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EU support for energy in developing countries
March 21, 2019In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a special report highlighting the increased urgency of limiting […]
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The people’s Energy to Change fills the big screen on
December 18, 2018The documentary ‘Energy to Change’ premiered on 7 December to a crowd of 150 people. Among the audience were activists […]